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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1946
Page
14
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The piece argues against doom prophecy tied to Republican power. It cites 1914 to 1930 wage growth, early pension laws, fewer child workers, and doubled high school and college enrollment. It stresses that prosperity and change came from leaders and citizen good will, not party labels.
A. C. Wiccar of Washington, employment service manager, notes a surge in applicants for technical posts and a temporary surplus of air pilots seeking employment.
Dr Richard Leighton Greene new Wells College president defends ivy clad colleges as places that foster practical dreams. He cites Henry Ford Thomas Edison Bernard Baruch and others and argues education should connect dreams plans and action beyond city life.
The Gallup Poll reports 24 percent of renters consider rent increases fair given rising costs. 15 percent suggest the increase would be about $0 to $15 monthly. Public sentiment favors maintaining government rent controls despite calls for shift to states or abolition.
Postmaster W D DeGrassi urges air mail for distant cards as a faster option with reduced rates of five cents for air mail stamps. Delivery through Tuesday and Christmas Day is available with nearly 100 extra workers and seven borrowed army trucks aiding parcels and card deliveries.
Billy Rose recounts nearly stealing Rodin’s The Thinker in Salzburg during lunch with officers in a house once occupied by a Nazi Gauleiter. A Brooklyn corporal and Captain Endicott accompany him as they consider taking the sculpture from the garage of the seized house, amid snow and bombed bridges.
A narrator muses on crime and desire after plotting to smuggle a statue from a German-occupied museum to New York. He recalls Endicott’s eager talk and a failed plan, debating whether a normal citizen could become a thief under pressure while warning not to be left alone with the Mona Lisa.
The speaker muses on aging and eyes revealing character from youthful beauty to worn resilience. He recalls eyes that face danger, resist fear, bluff strength, endure punishment, and show steadiness, patience, and faith. He ends with a playful twist that the eyes decide who stands out.
Puzzle fills readers with word clues ranging from Italian statesmen to atomic force era phrases. The page lists horizontal and vertical entries such as pictured Italian statesman and trigonometry term, plus a Sunday lesson sermon subject from Christ Scientist churches with cited biblical verses.
Three reels of colored films were shown at an Amarillo Airmen's Association meeting in the Tradewind Airport ground school room led by R. R. Jarrett. The nominating committee of Glenn Battin James Runkle Dolores Archer Jarrett and Betty Gose was named to present officer candidates at the meeting chaired by Capt. Bob Siler. Plans to change meeting times will be discussed January 9 and members will be split for a two side membership drive contest. The Texas Aviation Association may be considered for joining.
A compilation of handwritten letters from children describing their Christmas wishes. They request gifts such as bicycles, cowboy suits, dolls, balls, toy guns, watches, candy, fruit, and a Teddy Bear. Some mention siblings, ages, schools, and a father in Panama.
Gaile Lynn Kenyon asks Santa for a drum a doll buggy a baby doll a sidewalk bicycle cow boy boots and a dog collar for Scooter. She hopes Santa is well this year and recalls a car last Christmas with missing keys. She signs with love from a hopeful child.
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